Derek Scruggs

Seen in China’s western frontier at a Silk Road market where the craftsmen specialize in handmade rugs:

Several months ago Denis Lavoie stumbled accross some of my posts about China. He was looking for advice about organizing a trip there for the University of Washington business school, so we talked by phone and I put him in touch with a couple of contacts I have there.
Since then he’s done the trip and […]

From China?

Nanjing [Automobile Group], which purchased the assets of the bankrupt MG Rover Group last year, aims to be the first Chinese carmaker to open a factory in the United States. The company has scheduled a news conference for Wednesday in Oklahoma to announce plans to build a newly designed MG TF Coupe there, starting […]

I started to write this as a comment to a Jeff Jarvis post about some agressive questioning Yahoo’s Terry Semel apparently endured about its operations in China. But it got to be rather long so I thought I’d post it here instead.
May I suggest that people who are concerned about this actually go to China […]

I’m not sure exactly what needs to be said, but I think it’s important that this story be passed around: The Biggest Wish of Asia’s Tallest Woman.
More pictures here and another here.
Via Shanghaist

Almost exactly two years ago my wife and I were married in New Zealand. We spent two weeks there and, because my wife is a social butterfly, we met a lot of Chinese expats. Of course, we know a lot of them here in the US, but most of them are in their twenties and […]

This is one of those things that’s smart both operationally and from a PR perspective:
The company has decided to store search records from the site outside of the country in order to prevent China’s government from being able to access the data without Google’s consent, said Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, speaking Monday at a […]

I just came across this site courtesy of Brad Feld: Save Google Free China
Let me state at the outset that I am disappointed that Google is censoring results in China. However, I don’t believe they have a choice. If you set up shop in a foreign country, you have to follow their laws. […]

In the US and, I suppose, most of the West, the words “Tianenmen Square” usually stir up images of the Chinese government brutally suppressing the protests there in 1989. This is why I linked to English and Chinese versions of searches on the word “Tianenmen.”
However, I learned today on Slashdot (and confirmed with my wife) the […]

From Pacific Epoch - Rumor: Google, Yahoo Courting Bokee
I happen to slightly know Lu Liang, the CTO of Bokee.com and met with him while I was in China last Fall. I emailed him about this but I don’t expect him to confirm it. Bokee used to be called Blog China.
Trivia: their platform was developed […]